Concern over how America will meet its future energy needs is causing the power industry, politicians and even some environmentalists ask whether new nuclear power plants should be part of the nation’s energy mix. Increasingly, they are answering in the affirmative. Among the factors that are ...

John McCain mocking the idea of nuclear safety seems about on a par with his air quotes around women’s health, but the fact that the whole audience shares his scorn for the idea that nuclear plants should be safe is odd: The policy argument that our ability to use nuclear power ...

Nice of someone outside the green community to observe that John McCain’s hatred of subsidies doesn’t seem to extend to nuclear energy: A senior Republican lawmaker has questioned John McCain’s energy proposals, including a plan to build 45 nuclear plants by 2030, given the ...

I would consider subsidies to the nuclear power industry a price worth paying to get a good carbon pricing bill through congress, but count me as extremely skeptical on the merits that large subsidies to the nuclear industry is actually the right way to tackle the challenge of climate ...